View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother Abigail give Ralph, Glen, Stu, Fran, and Larry?

2. Prior to the executions of Larry Underwood and Ralph Brentner, Horgan decides to take a "stand" against who?

3. How many members are on the ad hoc committee?

4. How did Glen Bateman, who went out west to make the Stand, end up dying?

5. Flagg tells a group of sentries posted on the eastern border of Oregon to look out for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of Larry and Ralph and Glen "sacrificing themselves?"

2. Do Larry and Ray survive the nuke?

3. What was the significance of "Baby, Can You Dig Your Man," Larry's rock song?

4. What did Stu Redman die of?

5. Fran and Larry plan to what once they get to Harold's house?

6. What was the point of sending Stu, Ralph, Glen and Larry to confront Randall?

7. What happens to Harold and Nadine when they are riding west on their motorcycles?

8. Tom and Nick leave Julie behind in Kansas after she tries to do what to them?

9. Why did Mother Abagail feel she had to go into the wilderness?

10. What happens when Randall Flagg's powers become stronger?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the meaning of the book’s title. Does it refer only to the men from Boulder?

Essay Topic 2

Some of the characters discussed, W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," poem which was written after the First World War. Do you think that it sets the tone for the entire book?

Essay Topic 3

Animals serve as helpers to both factions. Give examples of who they are and how they intervene in human affairs.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 599 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample